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Green solution for Amman’s problem building site

An architect’s plan to turn the stalled Jordan Gate Towers into a park with solar, wind and an indoor farm.

A green solution could be the answer to the Jordan Gate Towers construction catastrophe in Amman.

The solution, proposed by architect Hanna Salameh in a Facebook video last week, is that the project should be renamed Jordan Gate Park and should be completed as an eco-friendly development, with solar panels, wind turbines and an indoor farm, thereby solving the country's water and energy problem as well as offering a public space.

Salameh, representing the group of engineers who work at his Hanna Salameh design company, talked through his idea in a six-minute video posted to Facebook which has since been viewed over 600,000 times.

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